Edgewood Creative Thinking through STEAM Magnet School
Grades and ages
Grades K-8
Tuition
Tuition-free
About Edgewood Creative Thinking through STEAM Magnet School
Edgewood Creative Thinking through STEAM Magnet School has stood in the Westville section of New Haven since 1911, when it opened for 1st to 8th graders from the neighborhood. The original 1911 building is still part of our campus and was renovated in 1999. The school takes its name from Donald Grant Mitchell's Edgewood farm, which he left to the city as Edgewood Park, and when the school opened, cornfields grew across the street where the park is today.
We are now a K-8 magnet school of choice for about 450 students from throughout New Haven, with two classes per grade level and a staff of 50. As a STEAM school, we teach through hands-on work in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics, and we put special weight on widening each child's experience of the arts and building creative confidence. Guest artists visit to work with students.
Admission runs through the New Haven Public Schools Choice and Enrollment Office, which places students by lottery each spring. We are committed to an inclusive community that values all cultures, and we teach students to think critically about the world around them.
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- Public
- Elementary (K-5)
- Middle School (6-8)
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- STEAM
- Arts integration
- Magnet school
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- Kindergarten
- Middle school grades 6-8
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- Kindergarten
- Middle school grades 6-8
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Tuition: Tuition-free
- Tuition-free public school
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